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Insufferable Genius
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Insufferable Genius (trope)
"Could these calculations be simpler?"
"No... now calculate the chances you're getting punched."note 
"A shame. If you were anything akin to me, perhaps we could've become friends. Then again, you would need an IQ of more than 200 to meet the minimum criteria."
Bedman to... himself, Guilty Gear Xrd

At first glance, the Insufferable Genius appears to be exactly the type who's doomed to learn An Aesop about humility: he's very talented, he knows he's very talented, and he doesn't mind telling you repeatedly what a talented person he is. But the difference between him and your standard-issue loudmouth is that he really IS that good, and when you need someone with his skills to save the day, he always comes through. So you have to concede that at least a little of his arrogance is justified — not enough to make you forget that he's got the social skills of a chainsaw, but enough that you can tolerate his ego if that's what it takes to keep him around. Not that he can't ever be hit with An Aesop of some kind. In particular, every Insufferable Genius constantly runs the risk of humiliation if they ever make a mistake — which they are more or less bound to do eventually, by simple probability theory.

May overlap with Brilliant, but Lazy. Often easily Enraged by Idiocy. Depending on their overall skill and/or hamminess, they may be an Awesome Ego. May join in a Battle of Wits, if anyone is in the right league. Compare Gentleman Snarker, Tall, Dark, and Snarky, Know-Nothing Know-It-All, Too Clever by Half, Bunny-Ears Lawyer, The Proud Elite. Often leads to the grudging conclusion that Jerkass Has a Point. Contrast with characters that do get their Aesop, who may fall quickly or be slowly broken. This character is often given a foil by pairing them with a less intelligent sidekick in a Smart Jerk and Nice Moron pairing. Not often, but they certainly can be an Awesome Ego if their antics are rather entertaining or amusing. Pretty much Always Male due to Most Writers Are Male.

A lot of the time, in some way or another, the Insufferable Genius' inflated ego is merely a facade that compensates for any insecurities or shortcomings, perceived or otherwise. They could also be legitimately delusional and truly believe they're "above" everyone else. If they are aware of their poor reputation and the large amount of people who have serious problems with them, they will often view it as further evidence that they're in the right, with their justification usually being something along the lines of "the strong needn't concern themselves with the opinions of the weak" or "if you're not divisive, you either surround yourself with yes men or have never done anything".

If faced with consequences for their behavior, they will almost never accept them or recognize where they went wrong — as far as they're concerned, it's just a case of Tall Poppy Syndrome and/or useless people trying to bring down someone else because they have nothing to offer. Occasionally, they might display a personable and compassionate side of them sometimes along with a deep, dark secret revealing why they're the way they are, in which case they have Big Ego, Hidden Depths. People having the right to boast about themselves doesn't automatically mean there's a reason to do so in such an overt manner, especially if their talents can indeed be backed up. Despite any justification, arrogance is usually indicative of weakness, immaturity, stupidity, poor character and the like; something an Insufferable Genius would be too proud to realize. They may be subject to Antipathy-Induced Indifference if the push those around them too far.

Also contrast with Gentleman and a Scholar (whose intelligence does not prevent him from being gracious, friendly, and polite), Small Name, Big Ego (who thinks he's an Insufferable Genius but is merely Insufferable, if not an Insufferable Imbecile) and Academic Alpha Bitch (who is the high school version of the Insufferable Genius and feels the need to order the school to her specifications). See Kindhearted Simpleton which is the opposite of this trope. Compare Rightly Self-Righteous if it's the character who is morally right despite how condescending they are. Compare also Smug Super and the Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, whose egos come from personal strength instead of intelligence. See Tall Poppy Syndrome for how they're often reacted to. Related to but distinct from Academia Elitism, which is more about educational status than intelligence.

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    Comic Books 
  • Batman:
    • Batman himself, especially when he does team-ups, can come off as very exhausting to his allies.
    • The Riddler sometimes has a tendency to taunt Batman about his (supposed) stupidity.
  • Fantastic Four:
    • Victor Von Doom is renowned for his villainous arrogance. His original enmity with Reed Richards came about because he refused to consider the possibility that he could make an error, then, when the machine blew up in his face (literally), he concluded that Richards had sabotaged it. On several occasions, it's been plainly stated that Doom is more than smart enough to easily figure out the secret identities of every hero in the Marvel Universe. Fortunately, his arrogance means he doesn't give a crap who any of them are under their masks and isn't going to waste time on it.
    • Reed Richards himself approaches this occasionally. He actually uses his genius for the betterment of mankind (sometimes). In one notable example, he got into an argument with Hank Pym when he claimed that he knew more about Pym particles than Hank did. Hank called him a bitch for that insult. The Ultimate Fantastic Four version of Reed Richards is even worse in this regard, to the point where he undergoes a Face–Heel Turn because he thinks that only he can make the world a better place.
  • Iron Man: Tony Stark has been like this since his conception, though the actual strength of it depends on the writer. Superior Iron Man is basically Tony taking this trait to even more obnoxious levels.
  • Justice League of America:
    • In Dwayne McDuffie's run, Hardware spends most of his time snarking about how easily he was able to break into JLA headquarters and how easy it was to hack into their communicators system. This angers John Stewart, who at one point angrily yells "Okay, we get it! You're smarter than us."
    • The female Dr. Light. During Crisis on Infinite Earths, she angrily storms out to find the Big Bad after one of her allies is seemingly crushed. Superman, worries that she'll get into trouble, flies after her. He not only finds that she's okay, but she has discovered and analyzed the Big Bad's machine of destruction. She sternly informs him that she knows what she's doing.
  • Legion of Super-Heroes: This is a consistent character trait of Brainiac 5, particularly in the reboot after the Zero Hour Crisis Crossover.
    • One of the (surprisingly many) Post-Crisis reimaginings of the origins of Superman involves his first meeting (as Superboy) with the Legion, who have violated the laws of time and causality to meet him out of hero-worship. When he discovers this, Brainiac 5 delivers a pompous lecture about the possible effects this could have. One of the Legion 'innocently' challenges him to work out the exact odds of his disastrous predictions coming true, riling Brainiac 5 up so much that he immediately leaves to do just that — leaving Superboy to hang out with the other members of the Legion, which was, of course, the whole point.
    • When three alternate Legions are brought together to face Superboy Prime, the three Brainiacs 5 bicker over which one of them should be the authority; none of them can stand any of the others (albeit for different reasons; one of them is distrustful of an older Brainiac 5 because he's never trusted any adults before and isn't about to get in the habit of it).
    • During the Crisis Crossover The Final Night, the Legion find themselves trapped in the 20th Century, and Brainiac 5 and the below-mentioned Lex Luthor are forced to work together to solve the problem of the Sun-Eater. A humorous moment comes when Brainiac 5 complains degradingly about how "primitive" 20th Century technology is. Luthor loudly proclaims to the entire room, "Young man, you're so much more advanced than we primitive cavemen, surely you must have already solved our dilemma!" Brainiac 5 promptly shuts up.
  • Metal Men: The Metal Men's creator Dr. Magnus can be irritatingly boastful of his intelligence at times, to the point that the backup feature appearing in the first seven issues of Keith Giffen's run on Doom Patrol at one point has him make the claim that his intellect is superior to 99.9% of humanity.
  • The first arc of the Mister Terrific series involves a supervillain named Brainstorm who is able to raise other people's intelligence at the expense of their social skills, effectively turning them into insufferable geniuses.
  • Inhuman Child Prodigy Lunella Lafayette from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is one of Reed Richards' rivals for the title of World's Smartest Man, and is often portrayed as an obnoxious, condescending Bratty Half-Pint with an ego to match Dr. Doom's.
  • The Powerpuff Girls: The last DC Comics story, "Smart and Smarter" (from issue #59 of Cartoon Network Block Party), has Blossom being admitted to a school for exceptionally smart children. Of course, this goes to her head, and after Bubbles draws a rainbow, Blossom details what causes rainbows in a condescending manner. When she starts ragging on Buttercup and Bubbles on their battle techniques against Mojo Jojo, breaking down every movement to a science, even Mojo has had enough and challenges Blossom. Eventually at the end, Mojo outwits Blossom, with Bubbles' and Buttercup's blessings!
  • Robin: Damian Wayne, the fourth (or fifth, depending on the continuity) Robin, is a bonafide genius who claims to have written doctorate-level papers before he finished growing baby teeth. By the time he's thirteen, he's already a skilled surgeon, a master of hand-to-hand combat, a keen detective, among many, many other skills. However, his spoiled and amoral upbringing with the League of Assassins made him arrogant and self-entitled, bringing him to blows with his adoptive brothers on multiple occasions when he insists that he's Bruce's rightful heir. Years of Character Development have made him far more tolerable (and sometimes even cute) but he still won't hesitate to rub his skillset and intelligence in other people's faces when given the chance.
  • Arguably the most insufferable of insufferable geniuses, The Spider is all the more insufferable because he's exactly as clever as he thinks he is, being both a Gadgeteer Genius and a brilliant improviser, and he's never shy about telling everyone within earshot just how magnificent he is, including himself (in his thoughts) when there's nobody else there to listen to him.
  • Spider-Man:
    • Doctor Octopus is particularly bad about this, especially in Superior Spider-Man (2013). Notably, he scoffs at Peter's lack of scientific achievments, despite knowing he invented the advanced web shooter tech when he was fifteen and has been too busy saving the world since then (often from Ock himself) to do much research to improve things. But nope, Ock's still "superior" to all other scientists. It gets so bad that, after the Superior saga ends with Ock performing a Heroic Sacrifice to restore Peter as Spider-Man, when an earlier version of Ock's mind is told about his older self's Heel Realization and subsequent sacrifice, this version of Ock comes to the conclusion that the only reason he would do such a thing is that Peter's brain couldn't handle his genius and it affected him.
    • Mysterio is a bit of a snob when it comes to his expertise in practical effects when the movie industry he was a part of has started to veer towards computer-generated visuals.
  • Superman:
    • Lex Luthor (the greatest criminal mind of our time!) might not be the smartest man in the DC Comics continuum, but he's close. And he's going to let you know it, any second now.
    • Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor: Per usual Lex's time in Smallville was marked mainly by him disdaining the intelligence of everyone around him. Even when he does things to help them, he does it without talking to them about it at all, earning their ire when he condescends that it's for their benefit. Clark is the only one patient and compassionate enough to give him a chance and try to encourage him to be nicer.
    • Arion, at least in the story "Camelot Falls". He believes that Superman must die, leave, or otherwise stop interfering with humanity. He saw a Bad Future where mankind got complacent due to Supes helping all the time, ending with the human race getting wiped out when faced with a big enough problem that Superman couldn't stop it. Arion's problem is that he thinks his plan (destroy Supes and other alien influences) is the only option, instead of just cooperating with Superman to find another way to deal with it. Arion also mocks and puts down anyone who tries to give him advice, such as dismissing Perry White as a "clodpoll" and acting as though Superman is just blankly ignoring his warnings, constantly insisting that his way will work as it has for so long before, rather than trying to adjust his methods when faced with evidence that things aren't going according to plan.
  • Thor (Marvel Comics): Loki usually ventures here when his plans are working (especially against Thor, since intelligence and magic are the only places he can outclass his older brother). Seeing as how he's often shown to be the Marvel Universe's resident master of the whole spectrum of The Plan, he sometimes deserves it.
  • Brainstorm of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye is incredibly self-important and narcissistic, but is tolerated nonetheless because of the never-ending stream of outlandish (and highly effective) weapons he's constantly producing.
  • Wobbly-Headed Bob, one of Jhonen Vasquez' side projects. Admittedly, everyone around him really is incredibly stupid, so Bob's pronouncements aren't unjustified.
  • X-Men:
    • On his worse days, Beast will fall into this category. As of the 2010s, he's been here more and more. Worse still, Reed Richards, Iron Man and Beast have worked together in the Illuminati. More than one event-level disaster has been spawned from their arrogance and refusal to look for other solutions, and shooting down anyone who dares to suggest they were wrong; in The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman), they immediately boot Steve Rogers out for trying to call them on this.
    • Dr. Nemesis combines this with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness to insult and berate those anyone around him whom he believes less intelligent than himself. That is to say, everyone. In one case, when reimplanting X-23's claws at the beginning of Necrosha,note  he insults her "amateurish" job extracting them from her old arm. For reference, Laura is one of Marvel's top assassins and her skill with her claws has been described as surgical in precision.

    Comic Strips 
  • Marigold the unicorn from Phoebe and Her Unicorn gets insufferably smug from time to time. This has been shown to be a shared trait among most unicorns.
  • Caulfield in Frazz is way past his grade level in knowledge but too lazy to skip grades. His main hobby is starting highbrow conversations that few people besides Frazz seem to appreciate.

    Fan Works 
  • In Alicorn, Twilight Sparkle has a problem with this, as part of the story's Dysfunction Junction. She assumes that she's the smartest person in the room, and that anyone who aren't as book-smart as her are either stupid or lazy. She rolls her eyes at Applejack's entirely correct assumption about Celestia being Rainbow's mother because Twilight had already concluded that it wasn't the case, and later grows increasingly arrogant and demeaning towards Rainbow because Rainbow can't learn magic based on the pile of theory-heavy books Twilight dumped in her lap. To her credit, she realizes how much of a jerk she's been thanks to Shining Armor calling out her flaws while assuring her it doesn't make her a bad pony, just something she needs to be aware of. Too bad the Nightmare would rather Twilight's flaws get worse and make her as miserable as possible.
  • AWE Arcadia Bay (Rogue_Demon): After managing to save Jesse's life after her mission in Chernobyl, Underhill goes on to remark that it would have been wiser of Jesse to send more rangers instead of going herself, both for her own health and for the medical expenses, and that the mission was a waste of Bureau time and money. Emily calls her out for her tactlessness.
  • Maggie Pesky throughout the vast majority of The Buzz On How Maggie Got Fondled By Flecko, starting with her unbeknownstly entering Virginia Wolfe's brain (through her certified canine ear canal, no less) with her uncle Flecko in tow and immediately proceeding to waste a positively ridiculous amount of precious time hyperactively and extensively fetishizing about every possible detail of said brain's internal anatomy...then escalating with the fact that she already knows exactly how to manipulate Virginia's body into doing whatever she wants on her VERY first time manning the brain's cockpit controls...and then finally reaching its peak when she amazingly has the foresight to turn on Virginia's "Brain-Cam-to-TV-Link" switch while Virginia and the rest of her family are tightly Bound and Gagged so that they'll have no choice but to helplessly watch as Flecko inevitably ends up raping her in the absolute most horrific way possible, so that she'll have undeniable video proof that she can use against him when she inevitably ends up being put on trial for murdering him.
  • Danganronpa Another has Rei Mekaru, the "Ultimate Professor" who's a Child Prodigy that lectures at universities despite being in high school, with her Establishing Character Moment being her deciding she's too good for the world's best high school after deciding her classmates don't live up to her standards. When the Deadly Game starts she spends her time antagonizing everyone around her and outright refuses to cooperate with the others during the Class Trials unless it becomes necessary because watching them struggle to figure out something she already had amused her.
  • Partly subverted in Equestria: A History Revealed. The narrator certainly sees herself as one, possessing a harsh personality despite her genius in uncovering the ancient conspiracies of Equestrian history. However, as the fic goes on, it becomes clear that her works of genius are powered by Insane Troll Logic, leaving her mostly just insufferable.
  • Zhuge Liang in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. Even in Shu, no one except Liu Bei actually likes him, for good reason.
  • In Growing Daylight, much like in the series, Merlin is particularly hard to cooperate with. He had agreed to apprentice Claire in the mystic arts. The only problem is that he has a habit of disappearing for weeks or months at a time without warning. He also knew that Claire was pregnant — or had known that she would have been in spite of their differing species — and completely neglected to tell them. When he confesses this to Claire, she tries prying more from him, only for him to disappear again.
  • Because so many of his inventions are fatally flawed, Sniffles from Happy Tree Friends is often potrayed as this in most fanfictions and fanart centered around him.
  • Harry James Potter Evans-Verres of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is this, aware he is this and, on occasion, "boasts" he is this to an already outraged audience of mildly important people up to and including Albus PWB Dumbledore (the list of regalia follows). He even gets to get away with this for quite a while — after all, he is brilliant. Then, of course, if he did so indefinitely, this wouldn't have been a good story.
  • If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device:
    • The Emperor is this trope personified. Despite being a barely-living husk of a body reduced to speaking through a text-to-speech device, he will brag endlessly about how smart he is, how perfect he is, how powerful he is, etc. The thing is, he's kind of right: he is the most powerful human psyker in existence, he conquered the entire human race (which was spread out across millions of planets, mind you), his Warp presence appears to nearly be on par with the Chaos Gods themselves (who refer to him as "The Anathema"), and his series-spanning plans, while convoluted and very odd, actually seem to be working.
    • One of the Emperor's sons, Magnus, gets some of this attitude by the episode sixteen, treating those who are under him in terms of power and warp-related knowledge (which is everyone apart from Tzeentch and the Emperor) as morons. On the other hand, he is third most powerful psyker in the universe, and the only ones above him are a Physical God and Sentient Cosmic Force, so he has every right to brag.
  • In Imaginary Seas, Athena is the goddess of tactical warfare and wisdom, but is especially proud and confident in herself, treating others like morons to be educated or chess pieces to move. Percy refers to her as a "heartless, cast-iron bitch", but is able to abuse her pride to manipulate her into being more helpful.
  • Galeem in Incorrect Smash Bros Quotes. Jerkass, Deadpan Snarker, easily Enraged by Idiocy (or in general)...and also the resident Only Sane Man, meaning more often than not, he is the smartest person in the room.
  • Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: While Goh was seen like this in his canon series, the rewrite has him condescendingly talk down to Amelia over not knowing anything about Wingull to which Amelia points out that she's been stuck on the Train for thirty years and old enough to be his grandmother. Still doesn't stop Goh from stating that it's obvious what he's talking about Wingull using Hydro Pump by breaking it down for her via mansplaining. Chloe internally notes that this attitude is one of the things she could never tolerate.
  • The Mansionverse's ghosts can be quite smug about how good at scaring they are, and the worst is easily the Portrait Man, Nightmare Fuel personified when on the job but insufferably smug (and chatty) about it during 'breaks'.
  • Ash's Pokédex in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines never ceases to remind everyone of how smart it is.
  • RM from The Pokémon Squad, especially after he Took a Level in Jerkass. Hell, the episode "The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life of Timothy Green" has him admit that he's a pretty bad person when Clemont comments on it. He once even rebuilt a robotic suit just to reprimand the citizens of Unnamed Town over petty crimes. Almost always Played for Laughs, of course.
  • In Returning, Rose Weasley has inherited her mother's "bossy know-it-all" tendencies along with her brain. Scorpius Malfoy is intelligent but, unlike his father, doesn't really see himself that way — as such, he interprets Rose seeing him as The Rival as her being a Jerkass.
  • Simon Skinner-Chalmers from The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H. is highly intelligent and at the top of his class, and is often very smug about this.
  • Super Danganronpa Another 2 has Kanade Otonokoji, the Ultimate Guitarist. Although her talent is musical, she is an avid fan of medical dramas and murder mysteries, making her quite Genre Savvy in the trials. But the "insufferable" part doesn't really show itself until Chapter 2, when she takes center stage as the one helping Sora find the culprit. Whenever her theories are questioned, she busts out a frightening Death Glare and viciously insults whoever dared to disagree. Not even her own twin sister is safe from her wrath!
    Kanade: Peh! What a disappointment. I never expected you all to share a single-digit IQ like my sister. To think I could easily die if you halfwits vote wrong... Disgusting!
  • The main characters of Swing123 and garfieldodie's Calvinverse mostly fall into this somehow.
  • Played for Laughs in Sword Art Online Abridged. The series counterbalances the canon Kirito's Invincible Hero status by portraying him as one of these, with his immense skill at the game being his only redeeming quality in most people's eyes. Kirito's Friendless Background in the source material was an Informed Flaw, while Abridged fully leans into Loners Are Freaks.
  • Daneel Randt from the Tamers Forever Series is a bright but arrogant young technician.
  • Drew from Total Drama Legacy. One character describes him as "the embodiment of 'Um, ACTUALLY...'".
  • Ultra Fast Pony: While Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic occasionally dips her hooves into the insufferable pool (see Western Animation, below), Twilight in Ultra Fast Pony dives straight into the deep end. She's so irritatingly self-assured that the other ponies tell her outright that they hate listening to her.
    Spike: I just don't understand why you can't let her be?
    Twilight: Let her continue to live her life believing in something that is wrong?
    Spike: Why not?
    Twilight: Spike, listen. I am the smartest and wisest pony in the whole town. Everything I do works and everything I do makes perfect sense, and shut up about the burrito. My way of living is vastly superior to anyone else's, and it is my duty to have everypony do exactly as I do. My thoughts and reasonings are always rational and correct, and I will not rest until everyone else has the same opinions as me!

    Films — Animation 
  • The Lion King (1994):
    • Scar reminds everyone how smart he is a little too often.
      Scar: Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion's share, but when it comes to brute strength... I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool.

      Scar: I'm surrounded by idiots.
    • He also does this throughout the song "Be Prepared".
      Scar: It's clear from your vacant expressions/ That the lights are not all on upstairs./ But we're talking kings and successions/ Even you can't be caught unawares.
  • 'Twas the Night Before Christmas: Albert Mouse believes strongly that there is no Santa Claus and isn't shy about voicing his opinions. He also seems to know quite a bit about how clocks work — although maybe not as much as he thinks since the first time he visits the clock tower, it ends in disaster. He does fix the clock later, and also learns about the importance of both humility and having faith.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • Mark "the Meach" Meacham in The Gamers: Hands of Fate is an Insufferable Genius of card games.
  • Matt Damon's character from Good Will Hunting can be this at times, particularly when explaining to Stellan Skarsgaard's character how frustrated he is. Most of the drama of the film comes from the fact he uses his genius to drive everybody who tells him to do something, anything, better with his life than being a two-penny janitor and construction worker completely crazy.
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Dr. Mark Russell is a self-centered, self-righteous asshole to everyone around him, but he's genuinely competent at predicting the Kaiju's behavior in this film (in the sequel, this trait completely disappears). To a lesser extent, Dr. Rick Stanton is a supporting smart character; a snarky functional alcoholic who specializes in tracking the monsters' bio-acoustics. Dr. Russell's ex-wife Emma Russell is also characterized this way in the film's prequel comic.
  • The Imitation Game: Alan Turing is this a lot of the time, lampshaded when he's told that "in order to play the 'irascible genius', you do have to actually be a genius," and he's working with people who qualify for genius in their own right. However, even surrounded by such bright minds, he is still far enough ahead of the game that his arrogance is (by the skin of his teeth) tolerable enough to work with him. This has drawn a lot of criticism from historians, since the real Alan Turing, though certainly an eccentric loner, was, by all accounts, actually quite friendly to those he knew.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • Tony Stark. In Iron Man 1, he is an engineering genius, billionaire, and ladies' man, and he's got the ego to match. He enjoys putting the boot to his rivals and opponents, but he's usually having too much fun to be a dick to anyone else. In The Avengers (2012), he keeps it up and spends most of the non-action scenes striking a perfect balance between indispensability and insufferability. Summed up perfectly in this well-known exchange:
      Steve: Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?
      Tony: Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist.
    • Loki in The Avengers (2012). Massively intelligent even by the standards of an Asgardian, and he doesn't mind reminding people how great he is: "Enough! You are all of you beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature!" This backfired, because he says it to the Hulk, who proceeds to grab Loki by the ankles and slam him repeatedly onto the ground. ("Puny god.")
    • Doctor Stephen Strange is no slouch in this regard, either — he's a brilliant surgeon with an ego the size of a living planet. In fact, come Infinity War, this causes friction with Tony Stark — both are Insufferable Genius Deadpan Snarkers who are evenly matched in both regards.
    • Princess Shuri has a moment in Avengers: Infinity War when she asks Bruce why he didn't find a simpler configuration for Vision's neural structure. Bruce, who is a gamma radiation physicist and not an engineer or neurologist, admits that it didn't occur to him and Tony. Shuri sardonically says she's sure he tried his best.
  • Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady has this in spades. He is incredibly intelligent and has a near encyclopedic knowledge of linguistics. However, he's also arrogant, misogynistic, and completely selfish. Even his own mother gets annoyed with him and delights in seeing Eliza put him in his place.
  • Duncan from Mystery Team fakes the genius part, but gets the insufferable down pat. He spent his childhood memorizing bits of trivia, and assumed this was enough to make him a "Boy Genius."
  • Herbert West, Re-Animator, is a young medical genius who has discovered the secret of bringing the dead back to life, but he pisses off so many people with his condescending attitude that no one likes him. Also, the zombies probably don't make him very popular.
  • In Rush (2013), Niki Lauda is madly talented, knows it and will not hesitate to let everyone else know.
  • The title character of Sherlock Holmes (2009) is a genius investigator with more than his fair share of bothersome quirks. Aptly, he's played by Robert Downey Jr., the same actor who played Iron Man above, who is much the same.
  • Mark Zuckerberg, inventor of Facebook, as portrayed in The Social Network. However, it's left ambiguous whether he really is that obnoxious or if his Jerkass behavior in some of the flashbacks is the result of unreliable witness testimonies.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Dr. Robotnik is a brilliant and revolutionary scientist whose expertise in robotics makes him a very valuable ally to the government. And yet, the government and the military don't want to deal with him at all, since he is extremely arrogant and narcissistic. His Establishing Character Moment has him immediately declare himself superior to Major Bennington, and then claiming that nobody cares about him since Robotnik already outdid him in everything.
  • This is an Informed Flaw of Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 1. While he appears quite genial before becoming the Green Goblin, a Freeze-Frame Bonus of the news article about him early in the film notes that he was infamous among his colleagues for having an abrasive, arrogant side that led to him dismissing their ideas and possibly contributed to the breakdown of his marriage. The Psycho Serum only made it worse.
  • The Squid and the Whale: Bernard is a haughty and arrogant novelist who thinks he's superior to everyone else, doing things such as calling his (separated) wife's new boyfriend a philistine and assuming that his son's school's psychologist is unsophisticated because he doesn't have a PhD. His teenage son Walt, who idolizes him, blindly parrots Bernard's pretentious opinions on literature and seems to be shaping up to become just as insufferable as his father despite having not actually read the books he talks about.
  • Deconstructed in Steve Jobs with its portrayal of the titular character. While charismatic, Jobs' behavior is portrayed as symptomatic of something deeply wrong with him. He's fundamentally only able to relate to people through his products and his behavior towards his employees and family is downright abusive. At the end, he even admits to Lisa that he's "built wrong".
    Wozniak: It's not binary. You can be talented and decent at the same time.
  • Victor Frankenstein: Only Igor is willing to support and tolerate Victor's radical ideas and eccentricities. Almost everyone else views the latter as an embarrassing nuisance at best, or at worst, a lunatic who will bring ruin to the natural order.

    Jokes 
  • Authors and other artists are infamous for this trait everywhere. An anecdote told (probably about more than one author) has him talk with another guy, and all the time he's just talking about his new book. Finally, even he seems to get that he spoke enough, so he turns to the other guy and says: "But enough about me. Tell me something about yourself. — How did you like my new book?"

    Music 
  • Shania Twain's Prince Charming Wannabe in "That Don't Impress Me Much" is like this.
    I've known a few guys who thought they were pretty smart
    But you've got being right down to an art
    You think you're a genius, you drive me up the wall
    You're a regular original, a know-it-all
    Oh, oh, you think you're special
    Oh, oh, you think you're something else
    Okay, so you're a rocket scientist
    That don't impress me much
  • Subject of the short TISM track "I'm A Genius":
    Dylan Thomas was a piss head
    Jackson Pollock was a prick
    Norman Mailer hates women
    It's an end of season trip!
    Heroes seem so from a far
    But if you meet 'em you'll think twice.
    Genius is different from the rest of us...
    Most of us are nice!

    Pro Wrestling 
  • This was what Matt Striker becomes when he wrestles. As a commentator, he is much more tolerable, freely sharing his knowledge and breaking down things other people don't understand.
  • Nemesis was voted PGWA's "2010 New Comer Of The Year" despite being an obnoxious braggart. Going into 2011, Tracy Taylor granted Nemesis a title shot and agreed to defend her non-PGWA belt too, to shut her up. Then Taylor found out Nemesis had been undergone a physical transformation for the sole purpose of beating her, smugly stating she knew Tracy Taylor better than she knew herself.
  • Damien Sandow's feud with Sheamus on Monday Night Raw basically boiled down to Sandow flaunting his larger knowledge base and mocking Sheamus's lack of intellect till Sheamus kicked him.
  • La Rosa Negra had this attitude on Caged Heat Radio, to the chagrin of Jorge Alonso.
    "No worries I respect all opinions, I respect whatever peoples say. So pero, I show you, you's wrong!"

    Radio 
  • Douglas of Cabin Pressure. When asked if there is anything he isn't "very good at", he admits: "There are things I haven't tried yet. I suppose it's possible I'm not very good at some of those. Theoretically."
  • Eugene Meltsner of Adventures in Odyssey, though he softens a bit over time.

    Roleplay 
  • Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
    • Finn believes himself to be far above his peers — and given that he's a (literal) chessmaster who's deftly able to manipulate events behind the scenes, he's not too far off the mark.
    • Benedict's superpower boosted his already-impressive intellect to an extraordinarily high level. His ego grew to match it, as evidenced by his multiple proclamations that he's the 'smartest man in the universe'.
    • Katheryn likes to arrogantly lord her intelligence over others, which is particularly annoying because she really is just that smart.
    • Downplayed with Irene: she's very smart, likes to feel intellectually superior, and can get annoyed if other people show her up, but also tries not to rub it in other people's face.

    Tabletop Games 
  • Leonardo de Montreal in Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, who even gets XP for going off on speeches about how much smarter he is than everyone... but at the same time he's a master of Nightmare Science.
  • Genius: The Transgression:
    • Many Lemurians, and a significant number of high-ranking Peers. Many of the Inspired come across this way to Muggles, thanks to Jabir. It doesn't help that the typical Genius won't even allow a Muggle to lay hands on one of their inventions or examine how it works. From the perspective of the normal person, this is the height of arrogance and condescension. From the Genius' perspective, it's justified paranoia and common sense, because their creations will almost always break (or worse) if touched by a normal human.
    • The Unmada are particularly insufferable, as they're in permanent I Reject Your Reality mode, will simply not realize the facts are against them and have the little quirk that reality nearby tends to be influenced into making them be right about their crazy/stupid ideas. Not a good recipe for a plentiful social life, that's for sure.
  • Magic: The Gathering:
    • Niv-Mizzet combines a phenomenal magical genius that with a titanically swollen ego. Of course, he's a dragon. If you were several thousand years older and several times more brilliant than everyone around you, you'd probably have a bit of an ego problem too.
    • Also, Jace Beleren. He is a powerful mage genius with several deficiency in social skills. Bonus points for actually realizing this in one of the stories. Through telepathic shenanigans, he manages to meet a copy of himself within the recesses of his mind. He finds the experience deeply frustrating.
      [the copy taps his foot in a way Jace recognizes all too well]
      Jace: [in a melodramatic manner] I don't know if I can ever interact with another human again. I'm too annoying to be with.
    • Ertai of the Weatherlight saga was a magical prodigy and liked to make sure everyone knew it. At one point, Mirri gets so tired of his litany of his own virtues that she has to resist the urge to murder him, and even he suspects that Barrin taught him meditation just to get him to shut up.
      Ertai: There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny.
    • A common pattern in the game is to assign the flavour text for blue countermagic to some particularly insufferable blue mage talking down to their opponent. Noyan Dar, cited on Deprive mocking his adversary, would later get his own card and some storyline prominence, but many others are around, both named and otherwise: Counterlash, Disdainful Stroke, Last Word, Saw it Coming, Spell Blast...
  • In Warhammer and its sister series Warhammer 40,000, pretty much every Chaos Mage/psyker for Tzeentch is this by default. Worshipping the Lord of Change himself and Chaos God of hope, ambition, and knowledge ends up inflating your ego to such a ludicrous degree while giving you an array of magical powers. While dealing with Chaos just means that your worst tendencies are going to balloon to a downright hammy degree, Chaos worshippers aligned with Tzeentch are by far the worst offender when it comes to Pride, with the genuine scheming and mystical abilities to back up their self-confidence. This is actually Deconstructed more often than not, as not only does their new power often lead to insanity (and thus a general drop in their overall competence, regardless of what they may think), they are effectively bartering for power as part of both universes' equivalent of freaking Nyarlathotep, who is part of a Cosmic Chess Game against the other three members of his pantheon and can decide to sacrifice or warp you into a Chaos Spawn either for his own plans in the Great Game, or solely because he can. Yeah, especially in this universe, Evil Is Not a Toy.

    Theatre 
  • In 1776, John Adams is obnoxious and disliked. It's a huge concession for him to say that Jefferson writes better than any man in Congress, "including me." Adams' continued high-handed behavior, even after the Independence faction suffers a seemingly fatal reverse over the slavery clause, causes Benjamin Franklin to snap and rip him a new one over his counterproductive hectoring of men who have been chosen, just as he has, to be the best and most effective representatives of their colonies. Obnoxious and disliked he may be, but Adams still has a brilliant legal mind and an intimate understanding of the stakes and a bottomless well of determination to get it done.
  • Lancelot's "I Am" Song in Camelot brags about his prowess in battle and spiritual purity. Everyone at court finds him intolerable until the joust when he proceeds to do everything he says he can, up to and including bringing a man he (accidentally) killed back to life.
  • Freddie Trumper of Chess (1984) is a jingoistic, misogynistic, certifiably insane Jerkass, who nobody would give the time of day if he weren't every bit as good as he thinks he is at chess.
  • Cyrano de Bergerac: Cyrano invokes this because his great intellect is used to humiliate everyone who is not his friend. This is not so much to show he is a genius, but to show Viscount de Valvert that Cyrano is truly Insufferable:
    Viscount De Valvert: A ballade?
    Cyrano: Belike you know not what a ballade is.
    Viscount De Valvert: But...
    Cyrano: [reciting, as if repeating a lesson] Know then that the ballade
    should contain
    Three eight-versed couplets...
    Viscount De Valvert: (stamping): Oh!
    Cyrano: [still reciting] And an envoi
    Of four lines...
  • Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton is a sophisticated man of letters, a most talented lawyer, and successful statesman, and he will talk about this NON-STOP! During said song, Aaron Burr asks several times, "why do you assume you're smartest in the room?"
  • Professor Abronsius from Tanz der Vampire has undergone Adaptational Intelligence and sings a whole song about how smart he is and proving it later on by singing a song consisting entirely of authors whose books he read. Apart from those two songs (and his bit in the finale), he is not overly boastful, but his exceedingly inquisitive nature combined with a certain amount of tactlessness doesn't make him very popular with the villagers, who live in denial.

    Visual Novels 
  • Ace Attorney:
    • Manfred von Karma has been a prosecutor for forty years and hasn't lost a single time, but that's because he resorts to doing downright illegal things, from forging evidence to tampering with witnesses. He also tends to take control of the courtroom with his intimidating personality, shutting everyone down at every opportunity. Not only that, but he'll throw anyone under the bus to keep his record going, or to get back against Gregory Edgeworth. Finding out that he is a murderer and exposing him is very satisfying.
    • His daughter Franziska also falls under this, although she gets better after realizing and accepting what a horrible person her father was, becoming a Jerk with a Heart of Gold (albeit with emphasis on "Jerk").
    • His protege Miles Edgeworth is also this to an extent. Prior to his Heel–Face Turn, he is a straight example of this. After his Heel–Face Turn, he becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, although he's still strictly professional and lacks social skills in some situations, often becoming easily flustered when something awkward happens, or whenever his Stalker with a Crush Wendy Oldbag is within earshot. Despite this, he can be extremely empathetic when the situation calls for it, because he's no stranger to trauma himself.
    • Nahyuta Sadmadhi. He's a religious zealot and is Enraged by Idiocy, but he's good at what he does. Even before The Reveal that he was Good All Along, he shows respect for those who manage to best him in court.
    • Subverted with Phoenix in the first half of Turnabout Revolution. It seems as though he Took a Level in Jerkass, but Apollo and Athena eventually figure out the reason for his strange and desperate behavior, after which he immediately turns against the horrible scumbag he is defending.
  • Artificial Nexus: Susan's Mission Control Hank definitely considers himself to be smarter than Susan, and doesn't mind telling her.
    Susan: I don’t suppose you know the code to open the door?
    Hank: I’ll admit that this one of the rare times when I can’t instantly solve somebody’s problem...look around, you might find a clue somewhere.
  • Danganronpa:
  • Date Warp: Janet used to be one of these, and it came very close to screwing her over. In the backstory we learn at the start of the game, Janet's classmates previously bullied her because of her Genius. Because of that, Janet wouldn't join any extracurricular activities with the girls, which is understandable. The "Insufferable" part came into play because Janet ended up not joining any extracurricular activities with anyone, and she forgot that the college she was applying to strongly prefers girls with lots of social experience on their applications, so Janet almost didn't make it into college as a result.
  • Doctor West in Demonbane loves proclaiming that he is the "ultimate genius chosen by heaven". Most of the time he's regarded as a completely insane nuisance. But when he accomplishes such feats as building a fully sapient gynoid and reconfiguring Demonbane to be used without a grimoire, the story's characters find themselves forced to admit that he really is a genius engineer.
  • Tohsaka in Fate/stay night is matter-of-fact about her superiority, combining this with being The Tease for additional help making Shirou feel like a moron. On the other hand, it's Downplayed because while she is every bit as good as she says, that's only as good as she is. Shirou is not a genius like she is, but he tends to accomplish a lot cooler and supposedly impossible things because unlike her, he pushes his limits and doesn't quit when that's not enough.
  • Last Chance in Xollywood: Rinaldi the scenographer and set designer is great at his job, as the fact that he makes great sets for Love Dies Screaming with Last Chance's minimal budget shows. However he's also very self-important, and the reason he works for such a small studio is because he burned a lot of bridges in Xollywood. One of the ways the player can get a better relationship with him is to help him find a better job.
  • Yaginuma in The Shell is a grade-A jerkass, but he does have the reputation to back it up.
  • SOON has both Atlas and Fang at any point of the timeline, with baby Atlas being the only exception. Extra points to Fang, who titled her autobiography "My life as a genius". Even for the author of the scientific research that helped to save the world from Global Warming and Nobel peace prize laureate, that's pushing it.
  • In Umineko: When They Cry, Erika's brains are certainly nothing to laugh at, but she's also prompt to rub it on everyone's face. Cue cheers from the fans when Battler infuriates her by out-cultivating her on the topic of mystery novels.
    Erika: Oh, please! Don't tell me you have to waste several seconds to solve this problem?

    Web Animation 
  • ATTACK on MIKA: Tsueno is a rich classmate who is a studious student but he is arrogant and is always bragging about his intelligence. He looks down on Mika constantly who is poor and must work hard to support her family.
  • Dayum:
    • Ayden from "Types of People in the Library" reads about quantum physics and snobbishly tells Eric that his (Eric's) IQ is too low for him to understand the book.
    • The "Narcissist" from "Types of Friends Portrayed by Minecraft" demands his friend do his homework for him, believing it to be below him and preferring more highfalutin subjects like quantum physics.
  • DSBT InsaniT: Robo has signs of this, such as finding it frustrating when someone rephrases his wordy explanations and sticking with the original meanings of certain words despite not being Literal-Minded.
  • Epithet Erased: Sylvie is, academically, a very clever guy, having a doctorate at age 15 that, despite some ambiguity relating to his stat card, Word of God consistently treats as legitimate. On the other hand, as a person he's such an obnoxious, entitled dork that it becomes very easy to understand how he got to 15 without making any friends at all, to the point where he decides to stay behind in a museum after closing hours for no reason other than that he thinks he's better than regular museum-goers and as such shouldn't have to wait to see the Arsene Amulet. When info cards were released as part of the leadup to Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic coming out, each character got a unique stat, such as Giovanni getting 1 for Pure Evil; Sylvie's unique stat is "Um, Actually," and it's simply listed as "MAX". He is, at least, a Jerk with a Heart of Gold version, proving to be a surprisingly loyal friend to Molly within about 20 minutes of their first encounter.
    Sylvie: I am a highly trained epithet user who graduated college and became a psychologist at the age of 15! Like I'd ever cooperate with criminal scum like you!
    Giovanni: Hm. [pulls out bat] I'm gonna hit him.
    Molly: No, don't, we need his help!
    Giovanni: But I wanna hit him!
  • Inanimate Insanity: In Blue Buried, we learn that The Eeyore Blueberry actually isn't so much that, when he masterminds a Batman Gambit to get back into the game. He spends the rest of the episode after he reveals his plan, and the entirety of the next, rubbing in everyone's faces that, as far as he's concerned, he's a genius and they're easily manipulated sheep.
  • Arthur Watts of RWBY is a top Atlesian scientist turned Evil Genius of Salem's followers, who spends most of his screentime insulting everyone else for not being as smart as he is. The others in the inner circle have dark backstories explaining why they joined Salem, but Watts was passed over for a project once, in a lifetime of getting everything else he could have wanted, and decided to destroy the entire kingdom out of spite for not "appreciating my genius". He's finally done in when Cinder plays to his ego, pretending that she finally realized how he was always smarter than her, and the glee of getting what he wanted blinds him to the fact that she's set him up to die.
  • SparkTales: Veronica from "15 Years Later We Met at a Tower Entrance! The Outcome Was Epic" always bragged about being a genius ever since she was revealed to have an IQ of 200. Moreover, she always demanded to change schools whenever her classmates weren't smart to her liking, causing her younger sister Lisa no end of grief as she had to abandon old friends. Fifteen years later, Noah reveals that while Veronica is at the top of her class at the best university and worked a job at KST, she was on the verge of firing for being so selfish.
  • Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation is widely viewed as one. He once wrote a sarcastic poem entitled "Where I Get My Ideas" in reaction to the countless times he'd been asked that at conventions. In reviews, he sounds genuinely mournful at how idiotic everyone else is, and employs suicide threats as a Running Gag.

    Webcomics 
  • Paige of Agents of the Realm likes to remind people that she studied very hard to get a full ride scholarship. Once she has a chance to shine, though, this is easily forgiven.
  • The titular Frost from Dr. Frost. His Lack of Empathy, arrogant remarks and cold demeanor definitely rub people the wrong way, although there is little doubt that he is a genius.
  • Suspiria from Flipside. She's the youngest third-level mage in history and won't let anyone forget it. But her lack of practical experience paired with a consistent overestimation of her own power has led to tragedy and/or humiliation nearly every time she's tried to show "what she can really do." You'd think a "genius" would be better at learning from her mistakes.
  • Homestuck:
    • Sollux Captor can be a bit of an iin2ufferable geniiu2 when it comes to computers.
      TA: iif you cant fiigure 2hiit out by fuckiing around you dont belong near computer2.
      TA: kiind of liike wiith regii2tered 2ex offender2 and 2chool2.
      TA: iif you move two a new town you have two go up two your neiighbor2 door and warn them about how 2tupiid you are.
      TA: and giive them a chance two hiide all theiir iinnocent technology.
      TA: and vandaliize your hou2e.
    • Doc Scratch, crossing over with Smug Super. He is legitimately close to omniscience, but he loves reminding everyone of just how smart he is in comparison to them. He compares his machinations to playing a game of chess in which you provide your opponent with a list of all the moves you are going to make beforehand, and still win regardless. Which he proceeds to do. Everything up to the end of Act 5 happened exactly as he planned it.
  • In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Galatea has a very high opinion of her intelligence. And she's right, too, she really is brilliant. But she's blind to how inexperienced and naive her extreme youth makes her.
  • Rowan in Leif & Thorn is a variation: he's friendly and laid-back a lot of the time, and regularly charms people all the way into bed, only to snap and pick fights if they get something wrong about science.
  • Celebrity chess grandmaster Billy Thatcher in morphE is a self-described Jerkass who cares for little besides his chess career. He's also good enough to beat a Time Master who rewrote his personal history to become a chess prodigy and repeatedly cheated with Time magic — all while Billy was passing out from blood loss. Word of God also confirms that he's the most intelligent and quick-witted cast member.
  • Arthur 'Artie' Narbon, originally from Narbonic is frequently completely insufferable, though he's portrayed a bit more positively than many of the other characters who display this trope. It helps that when it comes to their own specialties, almost every other character is also an Insufferable Genius in their own way. It plateaus in Skin Horse, though, where he comes off as almost as smug and condescending as H.T., who at least has the excuse of being a cat.
  • The Order of the Stick:
    • Vaarsuvius is a brilliant spellcaster who has spent decades studying the craft and saved the team's bacon several times, and will never let them forget it. Although this eventually gets taken to the point of deconstruction, as it bites them in the ass big time.
    • Most wizards from the Order universe are like this, comparing sorcerers to idiot savants and proclaiming that divine magic isn't real magic. In fact, Eugene Greenhilt's contempt towards Fighters ended up souring his relationship with both his father and his son and his mentor's arrogant mocking of Xykon ended with his skull caved in.
  • Occasionally, Tycho from Penny Arcade. The real Tycho paints himself this way, at least:
    Tycho: [My mother] was made to endure much as I transitioned from absolutely insufferable teenager to an adult who had found a way to get paid for being insufferable.
  • Sandra on the Rocks: While fashion photographer Domenico is not just a Cloudcuckoolander but vain to the point of narcissism, he is clearly very good at his job, having an international reputation in the business. Notably, his ex-wife Zoé, who finds him very annoying, still continues to work with him when she could doubtless do very well independently.
  • Hyeonjin from Weak Hero. For as much as a pain it can be for the rest of the band to deal with his pretentious attitude, he is genuinely a musical genius. Gerard argues with Hyeonjin the most, and yet is also the one most besotted by Hyeonjin's musical pieces.

    Web Originals 
  • Lightning Sentai Blitzenger: Kimura Sanjou, AKA Jade Lightning, is a Teen Genius, and the narration remarks that it led to him developing a sense of arrogance that requires the other Blitzengers to keep under control.
  • Whateley Universe:
    • Quite a few, especially among the Gadgeteer and Devisor students. Plenty of the Exemplar students — especially ones from wealthy, prestigious, or in some cases, supervillainous families — also tend to be a bit too proud of their cleverness and learning, particularly those looking to become criminal masterminds.
    • Jobe Wilkins. In a school full of genius devisers and gadgeteers, plus the people smart enough to teach said inventors, he treats everyone else like they're a moron compared to him. He could be right.
    • Ayla Goodkind (Phase) often comes across this way as well, especially regarding financial matters, with an extra icing of noblesse oblige. Turning 300 million into over a billion before the age of fifteen may have something to do with this. When he and Jobe collaborated, it took all Phase's massive self-control to keep from tearing the Crown Prince(ss) to pieces.
    • While she's a bit more subtle about it, She-Beast (Jadis Diabolik)'s smug brilliance does grate on Gloriana's nerves over time.
    • Belphegor (Philip Blackadar) thinks he's a genius, and is certainly insufferable. He is extremely smart, but not nearly as smart as he thinks.
    • Stopwatch (Nigel Ridgely), the snide and self-important leader of the Masterminds clique.

    Web Videos 
  • American High Digital: While the IT Kids know how to fix computers well, they also constantly talk down Ryan while doing so to the point of deciding he doesn't deserve his laptop in the end.
  • Chuggaaconroy is a rather mild (and likely unintentional) version of this, in regard to how to properly raise a team of Pokémon and use them in battle, if his LP of Pokémon Emerald is anything to go by. Even then, it seems to only apply to Pokémon, as he's rather humble (but still smart) the rest of the time.
  • Dr. Glaucomflecken: Several of the doctors are this, with the Neurologist, the General Surgeon, and the Neurosurgeon probably being the most prominent examples.
  • Tom from Echo Chamber shows shades of this.
  • Escape the Night has Matt and DeStorm who switch between this and Know-Nothing Know-It-All. MatPat is a straight example, though.
  • In Noob, Bartémulius and Nostariat are the best alchemists of the Empire, remind it to players whenever they get the opportunity and are a walking incarnation of the Entitled Bastard video game Quest Giver archetype. However, the webseries and comic have shown that when they get the impression that a bad situation that is threatening to the Empire or the world can only be resolved by them, they're actually quite helpful and whatever they come up with usually works.

Alternative Title(s): Know It All Syndrome, Sir Boastalot

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